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The Christ Child (?), marble bust by Desiderio da Settignano, c. 1460; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 30.5 × 26.5 × 16.3 cm. Bust of a Young Lady, marble, by Desiderio da Settignano, c. 1460–64; in the Bode Museum, one of the National Museums of Berlin.
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Born c.1430 • Italy
Died January 1464 • Florence • Italy

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The Christ Child (?), marble bust by Desiderio da Settignano, c. 1460; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 30.5 × 26.5 × 16.3 cm.
Bust of a Young Lady, marble, by Desiderio da Settignano, c. 1460–64; in the Bode Museum, one of the National Museums of Berlin.
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Benedetto da Maiano
Italian sculptor
Andrea del Verrocchio: David
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian painter and sculptor
Germain Pilon
French sculptor
Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
Augustin Pajou
French sculptor
Lorenzo Bernini: Apollo and Daphne
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian artist
Laurana, Francesco: A Princess of the House of Aragon
Francesco Laurana
Italian sculptor
The tomb of the cardinal of Portugal, marble sculptural complex by Antonio Rossellino, 1461–66; in the church of S. Miniato al Monte, Florence.
Antonio Rossellino
Italian sculptor
saltcellar of Francis I
Benvenuto Cellini
Italian artist
Leone Leoni
Italian sculptor
Luca della Robbia
Florentine sculptor
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
French sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste: tomb of Maurice, comte de Saxe
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
French sculptor
Hiram Powers
American sculptor
Saints Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus
Tilman Riemenschneider
German sculptor
Manship, Paul
Paul Manship
American sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
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